Never Miss a Moment of Downtime
When your website goes down, every second counts. Customers can't complete purchases, users can't access your service, and your reputation takes a hit. Website monitoring ensures you're alerted instantly when problems occur, giving you the power to respond before the damage spreads.
What is Website Monitoring?
Website monitoring is an automated service that continuously checks your website's availability and performance from locations around the world. Our system sends HTTP/HTTPS requests to your website at regular intervals, verifies the response, and immediately notifies you when something goes wrong.
Unlike manual checks, automated website monitoring runs 24/7/365, testing your site multiple times per hour from different geographic locations to detect issues that might only affect certain users or regions.
Why Your Business Needs Website Monitoring
Protect Revenue and Customer Trust
Even brief outages translate directly to lost revenue. E-commerce sites lose sales, SaaS platforms frustrate users, and service disruptions send potential customers to competitors. Website monitoring minimizes these losses by enabling rapid response to issues.
Maintain Service Level Agreements
If you've committed to 99.9% uptime for your customers, you need accurate monitoring to measure and prove your reliability. Detailed uptime reports demonstrate that you're meeting your commitments and identify areas for improvement.
Improve Search Engine Rankings
Search engines penalize websites with poor availability and slow response times. Consistent uptime helps maintain your SEO rankings and organic traffic.
Stay Ahead of Problems
Catching issues early means fixing them before they escalate. What starts as a slow response might indicate an overloaded server that's about to crash—early detection gives you time to act.
Key Features
Fast Detection
Detect outages within 60 seconds with 1-minute checks. Get alerted before your customers notice issues.
Multi-Location
Monitor from 10+ global locations. Verify your site works for users worldwide, not just from your location.
Instant Alerts
Get notified via email, SMS, Slack, or Microsoft Teams the moment your site goes down.
📊 Real Incident: 3.5 Hour Friday Night Outage
Company: Mid-sized Shopify store (~$480K annual revenue, 2,300 monthly orders)
Date: Friday, November 17, 2023, 6:47 PM EST
Issue: MySQL connection pool exhaustion during Flash sale preparation
The owner was testing their weekend flash sale when their hosting provider's shared MySQL server hit max connections. The site showed "Error establishing database connection" but they assumed it was their test changes. They rolled back their edits and went to dinner. At 10:13 PM, a regular customer messaged them on Instagram asking if the site was down.
Total downtime: 3 hours 26 minutes
Lost revenue: Estimated $1,847 (Friday evening is 12% of weekly sales)
Recovery time: Host increased connection limit in 8 minutes once notified
Prevention cost: Monitoring with 1-minute checks ($9/month) would have alerted at 6:48 PM. Total downtime could have been <15 minutes instead of 206 minutes.
Getting Started with Website Monitoring
Enter Your Website URL
Add the URL you want to monitor (https://example.com). You can monitor any public website or API endpoint.
Choose Check Frequency
Select how often to check (1, 5, 10, or 30 minutes). More frequent checks detect issues faster but use more check quota.
Configure Alerts
Set up email, SMS, or Slack notifications. You'll be alerted within seconds when your website goes down.
Frequently Asked Questions
For critical e-commerce sites, check every 1-5 minutes. Less critical sites can use 10-30 minute intervals. The right frequency depends on your uptime requirements and budget. Learn more in our monitoring best practices guide.
Website monitoring checks if your site is accessible to users (HTTP/HTTPS). Server monitoring tracks if the physical/virtual server is running. Both are important - your server can be running but website down due to application errors.
Website monitoring ranges from free (limited checks) to $10-50/month for small businesses, and $100+ for enterprises. Factors include check frequency, number of URLs monitored, and alert channels. Most providers offer free trials.
When website monitoring detects downtime, you receive instant alerts via email, SMS, Slack, or other channels within 60 seconds. This allows you to investigate and fix issues before significant customer impact. Without monitoring, outages can last hours before discovery.
Yes, modern website monitoring supports HTTPS with custom SSL certificates, self-signed certificates, and specific certificate chain validation. You can also configure monitoring to alert on certificate expiration before it causes outages.
No. Website monitoring is designed for non-technical users. You only need your website URL (like https://example.com). Setup takes under 5 minutes and doesn't require coding, server access, or technical configuration. See our getting started guide for step-by-step instructions.
The top 3 mistakes are: (1) Monitoring from a single location which misses regional outages, (2) Setting check intervals too long (30+ minutes) which extends downtime, and (3) Only monitoring the homepage instead of critical user paths like checkout or login. Avoid these by using multi-location monitoring with 5-minute checks on all critical pages.